Joomla Product Compatibilities
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Please note - Site shapers are built with the most current version of Joomla at the time of creation. Joomla version 1.7 and higher allows you to upgrade after installation to the newest version by the touch of a button from Extensions/Extensions Manager/Update/Find Updates (button). This means that you can upgrade any 1.7 to 2.5 with simply a few clicks after installation, to ensure you are the newest version.

Upgrading is done in just five easy clicks:

Please note that when a particular template is created it is built on the most current version of Joomla available at that time. As Joomla releases new versions of their CMS they will occassionally add new features. Almost all new features will work with our templates with no issues at all, however some features that are effected by template overrides may not. It is not feasbible, nor it is possible for us to update all of our templates with these new features as Joomla releases a new version every six months. This does not mean that our templates will not work with new versions of Joomla, nor does it make them incompatible, it simply means that some new features may be abscent since they were not available at template creation.

We do not expect a lot of these issues, in fact to date there is only one known feature that meets the criteria mentioned above. Our goal is always to provide the best product and to make sure that our templates work with the newest features of Joomla. As new features are added to Joomla they will also be added to our templates that are created from that point forward. Below you will find a list of abscent features and a provided work around.

Editing Layout
This feature adds several new parameters to the edit screen of an article. These features allow the user to insert links, and pictures before the article is called. This feature was added in 2.5, and all templates prior to January 2012 will not receive this feature.

Editing Layout - Work Around
The work around is very simple. The features that were added are basic WYSIWYG editor functions. Any editor will give you the option to insert links and images into the article itself, not only at the top of the article, but anywhere. This is all done through the editor's easy to use graphical interface. Be sure to leave this feature disabled in the article global options.

Joomle 3.0 Upgrades - Any Vertex tempalte listed below as working with Joomla 3.0 will first install as a Joomla 2.5 installation. If you wish to upgrade to Joomla 3.0+ you can do this after the installation via the Joomla Update Component. You must also apply the Vertex 3.0 patch. A tutorial for this upgrade can be found here:

www.shape5.com/joomla_tutorials.html

Joomla 3.0 is strictly for developers and advanced users. If you are currently using 2.5, stay right where you are and do not upgrade until at least Joomla 3.5! Unless you are a very experienced user or developer we also recommend still creating even new websites with 2.5 because it is a more stable platform with many more extensions available for it. These are recommendations from Joomla themselves and we agree with them. The instructions outlined in the document above are for new websites, we will provide a tutorial for upgrading existing sites to Vertex 3 at a later date.

Please review our blog post regarding Vertex 3 from here:

www.shape5.com/blog/Vertex-3-Released-With-Jquery-.html